Rather, somewhat.
1830. I was kind of provoked at the way you came up.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 6.
1834. This kinder corner’d me, and made me a little wrathy.—C. A. Davis, ‘Letters of Jack Downing, Major,’ p. 90.
1835. He looked kind of stump’t. I bid him good bye, and that he ought to read both sides.—‘Col. Crockett’s Tour,’ p. 142 (Phila.).
1836. She looked a kind o’ slantindicular at him, and I think he kissed her.—Phila. Public Ledger, July 27.
1846. I see you on a load of hay day before yesterday. I thought you looked like a squire—kind of.—Knick. Mag., xxviii. 144 (Aug.).
1847. I confess, sir, that your ideas, which are new to me, look kinder reasonable.—D. P. Thompson, ‘Locke Amsden,’ p. 18 (Boston).
1848. I feel kinder sorry for the poor critter, arter all.—Knick. Mag., xxxii. 408 (Nov.).
1853. Very naturally we were kind of cornered.—Daily Morning Herald, St. Louis, Feb. 16.
1854. We won’t be rode over; we know our rights, I just kinder rather think.—Knick. Mag., xliii. 46 (Jan.).
1862. It’s kinder dull up here, but I couldn’t sleep.—Harper’s Weekly, June 7.
1879. I guess the cold weather ’ll kinder brace you up, so to speak, as it were.—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Happy Dodd,’ chap. xxi.
1890. They kinder suspicioned from my looks that I had found good prospects.—Haskins, ‘Argonauts of California,’ p. 250.
